Index: Ecological Rants: Mostly original pieces using philosophic concepts to think about ecological changes De-centring the Carbon; or Turning the Carbon Clock Back (or Not) The Great Big (W)hole: essay of Aristotle and the environment The problem with Words: Or why the problem of meaning matters One way weave 1 Series on how we got in this mess, and what can One way weave 2 be done about it! One way weave 3 Political rants These are short essays on philosophers, all with a very modern political edge Where’s History Going Now? Or against Whig histories Misplacing the Question. In praise of Neitzsche Just Whose Machine is it Anyway? Marx made relevant And it harm none. John Stuart Mill allowed his own voice Too close for comfort: The problem from Hobbes that haunts us all Dragons and Tigers: Why the two Machiavellis matter so much Philosophic Rants Essays on individual Philosophers, showing why they matter today! Why must I have an Identity?: Hume as you never have read him before Splitting the Image: or an introduction to some of Deleuze It’s That Plugging Thing! Or why one needs to need Foucault The Old, Old Problem: Part 1 This and the next look Spinoza’s political theory The Old old Problem:Part 2 Fighting the good Leibniz fight: Leibniz’s theory of affects examined We do it for the children: Plato’s theory of education and politics Doing what we Ought : Kant as Deleuze’s rival The Taking of the Biscuit: Schopenhauer and modernity Owning reality Original piece on where truth comes from Owning reality 2 And Literature too! Putting the boot back into What the DickensDe_Centring_the_Carbon.htmlThe_Great_Big_%28W%29hole.htmlThe_problem_with_Words..htmlOne_way_Weave.htmlOne_way_weave2_.htmlOne_way_Weave_3.htmlWhere_is_History_going.htmlMisplacing_the_Question_.htmlRecovering_Marx.htmlAnd_it_Harm_None.htmlToo_close_for_comfort.htmlDragons_and_Tigers.htmlWhy_Must_I_have_an_Identity.htmlSplitting_the_Image.htmlIts_that_Plugging_Thing.htmlold_problem_1.htmlOld_Old_story_2.htmlFighting_the_good_Leibniz_fight.html_We_do_it_for_the_Children_.htmlDoing_what_you_Ought_.htmlTaking_the_Biscuit.htmlowning_reality.htmlOwning_reality_2.htmlPutting_the_boot_back_in.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14shapeimage_2_link_15shapeimage_2_link_16shapeimage_2_link_17shapeimage_2_link_18shapeimage_2_link_19shapeimage_2_link_20shapeimage_2_link_21shapeimage_2_link_22shapeimage_2_link_23

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